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both the needed long‐term storage capacity and the fastest possible transfer to tape media. Compression hardware cannot further compress data that has been compressed by software, so the end‐to‐end backup process is significantly slower.

On the other hand, the VTL software compression feature is valuable when it is truly needed:

■when data is stored on the appliance long‐term, rather than cached pending migration to long‐term storage on physical tape

■when data has to be replicated across a slow WAN link.

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3.If you plan to use tape caching, use the spinner control to adjust the Tape Caching Policy Disk Capacity Threshold to 85% (D above).

When using automatic tape caching, you have to make sure that the disk never fills up, preventing you from creating new virtual volumes. The 75% threshold has been found to offer a good margin of safety.

4.Press OK (E above).

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